Martina Caruana’s time as Nationalist Party President of Political Research has come to an end, as she now focuses on her legal career at newly launched PB&C instead. She announced the news on social media on Sunday, where she described the two years of her tenure as having been “filled with so many emotions”.
“Emotions shared with people who refuse to lose hope in our country, people who seek nothing but to leave our country a little better than how they found it, people I grew to admire and love. We have cried together, laughed together, and held on to each other when the pressure was insurmountable,” Dr Caruana said.
This comes just a few months after she co-founded boutique law firm PB&C with Emma Portelli Bonnici, with the mission to “challenge custom, enliven law, and welcome innovation and inclusion”. Both Dr Caruana and Dr Portelli Bonnici are Doctorate of Laws graduates from University of Malta.
Dr Caruana described her time in politics as “no easy feat”, and while she did not have any political ambitions at first, “only a passion towards the value of democracy”, she used this principle as the basis of her term.
“I will always be a political animal. It comes from a desire to soak up as much experience and witness as much of humanity as I can before my time is up. For me, politics is everything. It touches every aspect of our existence, from a tangible perspective to a philosophical one. Music is political, relationships are political, and education is political,” Dr Caruana explained.
She remarked that “history is made” within government buildings and political headquarters, and politics is all about “understanding history as it happens and the process of electing officials that reflect what society believes its government should be”.
One of Dr Caruana's focuses throughout her career has been women's rights activism, as she has frequently represented domestic violence victims and sexual assault survivors in court, and has also co-founded the Network of Young Women Leaders. She specialises in international human rights law and transitional justice, and has won a number of awards over the years, including the Queen’s Young Leader medal presented by Queen Elizabeth II in 2018.
